A video that claims to advertise Bengal, an ex-illustrious state of India, as a "melting pot" where "diversity" reigns.
I caught a fleeting, almost ephemeral glimpse of a few Chinese faces. That's "diversity" Indian style.
If this is the "new" Bengal, I want to know what's so new about seeing the same old fat faces who have been strutting the cultural landscape of Kolkata? Ranjit Mullick? Rudraprashad Sengupta? Soumitra Chatterjee? New? Young? Fresh?
And the music: It's abysmal. To be honest, the video doesn't reflect a dynamic or modern Bengal, but the timeless chimera that Tagore created in his fiction--the "Bangala'r Maati and Bangla'r Jol" province that served the poet's imagination well.
The real Bengal, where is it? The mall's? The metro? Where's the business sector? Any new music in the offing? Where's the global Kolkata we so hear of? The sushi dens and the Pizza Huts? They too are legitimate nodes of the Bangla geography aren't they?
